I have more sense than to try to predict what will happen in Thursday’s election, but I do know what I want to happen. Published: 3 May 2022 First and foremost, I want the bad guys to lose. These, of course, are Sinn Fein, that cancer corrupting Ireland, and any other...
At home and abroad, their ignorant dislike for Brexit means they can only ever blindly take Brussels’ side Published: 14 October 2021 The injunction never to play chess with a pigeon is always applicable here,” wrote Kathy Sheridan, a long-standing columnist for...
With goodwill, there is a solution that avoids a hard border either on land or in the sea Published: 5 June 2021 The briefing war between the EU and the UK led to headlines this week saying that Brexit Minister Lord Frost thinks the Northern Ireland Protocol is...
With its open economy, Ireland is particularly vulnerable to Europe’s descent into senseless vaccine nationalism Published: 23 March 2021 If you take the Pfizer vaccine,” said the Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin – one of the sanest voices emerging from the EU, as the...
The sun is shining, the weather forecast is encouraging, the target of vaccinating the 15 million most vulnerable people in the United Kingdom by February 15 was met ahead of time, and despite the mean-spirited way in which Brussels is persecuting Northern Ireland, I...
Nationalist or unionist, if you care about the well-being of the island of Ireland, this is a time to be positive, writes RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS. Published: 29 December 2020 I plead with my nationalist friends to take the advice of Colum Eastwood in his first address as...
Sinn Fein is zooming up in the Irish polls, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards. Let’s hope voters reject them Published: 2 February 2020 Since Thursday night I’ve been celebrating in private with various Brexiteer friends who, like me, are rejoicing that the...
The pair would do well to remember what happened when Celtic Tiger died, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 July 2018 Simon Coveney, the Republic of Ireland’s Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been making his presence felt of late in the UK....
The British Government has been weak, the Irish gullible and the EU cynical, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 June 2018 I regret all sorts of things about the timid way in which the British Government is negotiating Brexit and the foolishness of the Irish...
Slavish towards Brussels and meddlesome up north amounts to a bad combination, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 May 2018 The DUP’s Sammy Wilson got cross last week about Leo Varadkar’s revelation that the Irish government had proposed “a joint...
